Candle Lightin' Time : Illustrated with Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club

Hardcover, gray-green cloth, gilt lettering and decor on front and spine, top edge gilt, 127 glossy pages, monochrome borders on every page, poems illustrated with 50 magnificent b/w photos of African Americans baking, riding horses, playing the banjo, mending fences, fishing, etc, and also some rustic landscapes. *** Complete subtitle: "Illustrated with Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and Decorations by Margaret Armstrong." *** Wonderful African American dialect poems by the great Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), a celebrated African American novelist and playwright. Poems are: Dinah kneading dough. Dat ol' mare o' mine. Spring wooing. The old front gate. Fishin'. When dey listed colored soldiers. Lullaby. Song of summer. At candle-lightin' time.